Portalis, Edouard Albert

Edouard Albert Portalis ( fr. Edouard Albert Portalis ; March 26, 1845 , Vesoul - April 29, 1918 , Poissy ) - French journalist . Grandson of Joseph Marie Portalis , great-grandson of Jean Etienne Marie Portalis .

He made his debut as a publicist with the pamphlet United States, Self-Government and Caesarism ( French: Les Etats-Unis, le self-government et le césarisme ; 1869 ), inspired by a visit to the United States . Imbued with sympathy for the republican model of government, he began to publish a two-week magazine Courier des Deux Mondes of the corresponding orientation. Over the next two and a half decades, he published and edited many newspapers in Paris, most of which were quickly closed by the authorities. In 1870, the L'électeur libre began to appear, during the siege of Paris it was replaced by the Vérité, which sympathized with the Paris Commune , then parted with it and was not closed after it was suppressed, but was banned six months later. Then the Portalis newspaper was revived under various names (“Constitution”, “Corsaire”, “Avenir national”, “Ville de Paris”, “Nouvelliste de Paris”, “Courier de Paris”, etc.), and the format, arrangement of articles and even the typographic font remained the same. The reason for the closure of one of them was an article by Emil Zola , who often collaborated with Portalis publications. In 1873, the course of Portalis somewhat changed: he placed in his newspaper an open letter to Prince Napoleon with a proposal for a union of a radical and Bonapartist party and a response letter from the prince on consent to the union. Subsequently, Portalis tried to play the Bonapartist card, but without much success. In 1883 - 1886 he published Le Petit Lyonnais in Lyon , then again in Paris, the newspaper Le XIXe Siècle, but the public finally ceased to trust him. In 1895, Portalis was accused of blackmail and was forced to quit journalism.